SPOOKY SPECIAL: Special! Communing With the Ancient Dead, The Underworld w/ Ellie Mackin Roberts

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! Greek & Roman Mythology Retold

Liv Albert

History, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 5.5K Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Revisiting all things Underworld: Persephone, Hades, and everyone in between. Follow Ellie on Tiktok and Twitter. Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content! Find all six years of Spooky Season content on this Spotify Playlist! Help keep LTAMB going by subscribing to Liv's Patreon for bonus content!

CW/TW: far too many Greek myths involve assault. Given it's fiction, and typically involves gods and/or monsters, I'm not as deferential as I would be were I referencing the real thing.

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0:30.0	Oh, hello, well, well, this is Let's Talk About Miss Baby and I am your horror obsessed
0:39.7	host.
0:40.7	I live.
0:41.7	Tomorrow is Halloween, and it's a Tuesday, which means we are getting a brand new Halloween
0:46.4	special tomorrow, but today, well today, we are back with one last bonus episode for this
0:52.6	spooookiest of weeks, and it's none other than last year's Halloween special.
0:58.9	On a whim last year, I ended up being able to chat with none other than the queen of
1:03.7	the Underworld research, Dr. Ellie McEnrobert's.
1:07.2	Ellie came on to share all things underworld, catholic, and the dark, and dreary.
1:12.2	She quite literally wrote the book on the Underworld, so there's no one better to get
1:15.9	us hyped up for all things ancient spooky.
1:28.9	Halloween special, communing with the ancient dead, the Underworld, with Dr. Ellie McEnrobert's.
1:56.0	The Underworld, I'm really excited about this, and obviously I had to talk to you about
2:00.7	it.
2:01.7	So, did you do your whole PhD on Underworld Gods?
2:04.6	Is that kind of where you got into it, or like what's the background on why you know
2:09.2	so much about Underworld Gods?
2:11.4	Yes, I did my PhD on Underworld Gods, it was Underworld Gods in ancient Greek cult and
2:21.7	literature, and then that turned into the book in which I took a lot of the like big literature
2:28.5	sections out, but I actually got interested in it because of her means, who is my favorite
2:37.8	Underworld God, definitely, because I did my Master's thesis, so in Australia, Masters
2:46.6	are slightly different than they are here in the UK, and I know that in America, you
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